Science subject and location tags

Tuesday, 31 March 2015Climate change may lead to disturbances in marine life that will take thousands of years to recover from, not hundreds of years as previously thought, say researchers.Subjects: climate-change, oceans-and-reefs

Thursday, 26 March 2015A growth in the number of thunderstorm clusters is increasing the amount of rain that falls over the tropical ocean, a new study suggests.Subjects: climate-change, physics, weather

Tuesday, 17 March 2015Waking giant Scientists have uncovered a series of tunnels and gateways which are allowing warm water to eat away at the Totten Glacier in East Antarctica, potentially leading to a dramatic rise in global sea levels.Subjects: climate-change, news

Thursday, 5 March 2015As the globe warms and cities sprawl, hot city nights are likely to lead to more heat stress for humans than previously anticipated, say researchers.Subjects: climate-change, healthLocations: sydney-2000

Friday, 27 February 2015The recent global warming 'pause' is partly due to a naturally-occurring cyclical cooling of the Pacific Ocean, say a team of scientists, who add that the pause is unlikely to last much longer.Subjects: climate-change

Tuesday, 27 January 2015Extreme La Nina events that affect weather conditions on both sides of the Pacific will almost double in frequency as the climate warms, a new study shows.Subjects: climate-change, weather

Wednesday, 21 January 2015Animals that live in cold, stable environments may suffer more as the climate changes, suggests new research on the ability of mosquitofish to deal with temperature increases.Subjects: climate-change

Friday, 16 January 2015Human activity has pushed the planet across four of nine environmental boundaries, sending the world towards a "danger zone", warns an international team of scientists.Subjects: environment, climate-change, oceans-and-reefs, pollution

Thursday, 15 January 2015Sea level rise in the past two decades has accelerated faster than previously thought in a sign of climate change threatening coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, a new study has found.Subjects: climate-change

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